# Moscow City Duma District 7

Moscow City Duma District 7 is one of 45 constituencies in Moscow City Duma. Currently the district covers inner parts of Northern Moscow.
The district has been represented since 2024 by United Russia deputy Darya Borisova, a patriotic education centre director, who succeeded retiring one-term Yabloko incumbent and foreign agent Darya Besedina, redistricted there from District 8.

## Boundaries

1993–1997: Aeroport, Khoroshyovsky, Sokol, Voykovsky The district covered inner parts of Northern Moscow.
1997–2001: Aeroport, Khoroshyovsky, Shchukino, Sokol The district lost Voykovsky District to District 4 and gained Shchukino in North-Western Moscow from District 33.
2001–2005: Aeroport, Khoroshyovsky, Shchukino, Sokol, part of Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo The district continued to cover outer parts of Northern and North-Western Moscow and gained part of Pokrovskoye-Strehnevo from District 34.
2005–2014: Ivanovskoye, Kosino-Ukhtomsky, Novogireyevo, Novokosino, Perovo, Sokolinaya Gora, Veshnyaki The district was completely reconfigured as it was placed into Eastern Moscow, overlapping the then-eliminated State Duma Perovo constituency.
2014–2024: part of Beskudnikovsky, Dmitrovsky, Vostochnoye Degunino, part of Zapadnoye Degunino The district was completely rearranged in the 2014 redistricting as it was moved to cover outer parts of Northern Moscow.
2024–present: Aeroport, part of Khoroshyovsky, Koptevo, Sokol, Voykovsky During the 2023–24 Moscow redistricting all of the former district was renumbered District 6. In its new configuration the district took all of former District 8 as well as a small part of Khoroshyovsky District from District 9.

## Members elected

| Election | Member | Party |
| 1993 | Galina Khovanskaya | Choice of Russia |
| 1997 | Galina Khovanskaya | Yabloko |
| 2001 | Galina Khovanskaya | Yabloko |
| 2005 | Vera Stepanenko | United Russia |
| 2009 | Vera Stepanenko | United Russia |
| 2014 | Nadezhda Perfilova | Independent |
| 2019 | Nadezhda Perfilova | Independent |
| 2024 | Darya Borisova | United Russia |

## Election results
### 2001

Summary of the 16 December 2001 Moscow City Duma election in District 7 :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Galina Khovanskaya (incumbent) | Yabloko | 30,608 | 49.10% |
| | Sergey Nikitin | Communist Party | 15,708 | 25.20% |
| | Andrey Kuznetsov | Independent | 7,014 | 11.25% |
| | against all | against all | 7,278 | 11.67% |
| Total | Total | Total | 62,987 | 100% |
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### 2004

The results of the by-election were invalidated due to against all line receiving most votes, another by-election was not scheduled as 2005 election was due to be held in less than a year.
Summary of the 14 March 2004 Moscow City Duma by-election in District 7 :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Aleksandr Kidyayev | United Russia | 21,651 | 19.97% |
| | Vladimir Ulas | Communist Party | 19,820 | 18.28% |
| | Yury Zhukov | Independent | 17,064 | 15.74% |
| | Aleksey Orlov | Independent | 15,301 | 14.11% |
| | Andrey Svintsov | Liberal Democratic Party | 2,384 | 2.20% |
| | against all | against all | 27,740 | 25.58% |
| Total | Total | Total | 108,423 | 100% |
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### 2005

Summary of the 4 December 2005 Moscow City Duma election in District 7 :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vera Stepanenko (incumbent) | United Russia | 43,839 | 30.32% |
| | Sergey Loktionov (incumbent) | Independent | 41,990 | 29.05% |
| | Andrey Kochanov | Communist Party | 18,753 | 12.97% |
| | Yelena Bogoroditskaya | Independent | 9,906 | 6.85% |
| | Leonid Kolosov | Independent | 8,116 | 5.61% |
| | Maksim Sadkovsky | Liberal Democratic Party | 6,522 | 4.51% |
| | Arkady Muravyev | Agrarian Party | 5,896 | 4.08% |
| Total | Total | Total | 144,565 | 100% |
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### 2009

Summary of the 11 October 2009 Moscow City Duma election in District 7 :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Vera Stepanenko (incumbent) | United Russia | 67,156 | 54.04% |
| | Aleksandr Potapov | Communist Party | 21,784 | 17.53% |
| | Yevgeny Subbotin | A Just Russia | 14,413 | 11.60% |
| | Viktor Podobedov | Liberal Democratic Party | 9,476 | 7.63% |
| | Aleksey Abramov | Independent | 5,810 | 4.68% |
| Total | Total | Total | 124,273 | 100% |
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### 2014

Summary of the 14 September 2014 Moscow City Duma election in District 7 :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nadezhda Perfilova | Independent | 16,257 | 45.85% |
| | Pyotr Zvyagintsev | Communist Party | 7,481 | 21.10% |
| | Aleksandr Dunyashev | Independent | 2,613 | 7.37% |
| | Svetlana Potapova | Civilian Power | 2,321 | 6.55% |
| | Vladimir Samoshin | Yabloko | 2,282 | 6.44% |
| | Aleksandr Molochko | Liberal Democratic Party | 1,578 | 4.45% |
| | Vladimir Khomyakov | A Just Russia | 1,557 | 4.39% |
| Total | Total | Total | 35,456 | 100% |
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### 2019

Summary of the 8 September 2019 Moscow City Duma election in District 7 :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Nadezhda Perfilova (incumbent) | Independent | 12,909 | 35.75% |
| | Pyotr Zvyagintsev | Communist Party | 12,772 | 35.37% |
| | Anton Verbenkin | Liberal Democratic Party | 3,371 | 9.34% |
| | Pavel Kushakov | A Just Russia | 3,132 | 8.67% |
| | Yelena Lugovskaya | Communists of Russia | 2,686 | 7.44% |
| Total | Total | Total | 36,106 | 100% |
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### 2024

Summary of the 6–8 September 2024 Moscow City Duma election in District 7 :
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Darya Borisova | United Russia | 30,378 | 46.67% |
| | Anastasia Rotkova | Communist Party | 8,441 | 12.97% |
| | Andrey Pangayev | The Greens | 7,272 | 11.17% |
| | Anatoly Farafonov | New People | 6,259 | 9.62% |
| | Dmitry Matyushenkov | Liberal Democratic Party | 5,214 | 8.01% |
| | Mikhail Timkov | A Just Russia – For Truth | 4,051 | 6.22% |
| | Igor Stepanov | Independent | 3,448 | 5.30% |
| Total | Total | Total | 65,095 | 100% |
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